RUR Analysis

R.U.R. is set at some point in the near future (from 1920), in and around the factory of Rossum's Universal Robots. It's not exactly clear where this is; perhaps in Czechoslovakia, or a similar cou...

R.U.R. is science fiction—though back in 1920, science-fiction wasn't exactly the genre it is now. H.G. Wells had already written The Time Machine and other sci-fi works, but there wasn't any Sta...

R.U.R. is not especially long as works of literature go, but it packs a lot of tonal variation into what space it's got. The result can be disorienting. One second, robots are a goofy gimmick, and...

R.U.R. has a problem that you get a lot of in science fiction: it has to tell you lots of information about how the world works. And it needs to do that without getting bogged down in boring roboti...

R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) is the title of the play, and also of the factory that makes robots in the play. Interestingly, the bit in parenthesis ("Rossum's Universal Robots") was actually...

Right at the end of the play there, Alquist—who seems to be the last human on earth—rants ecstatically about the love between the robots Primus and Helena, which he seems to think will save the...

R.U.R. is short and snappy; the robots hop along without too much highfalutin language, and with an easy-to-follow plot. Some of the philosophical discussions and concepts are a little tricky, perh...

We've Created Robots! Yay!Rossum's Universal Robots is churning out artificial people to do all your dirty work. The prologue tells you about the robots and introduces the main characters, Domin (t...

Booker's plot analyses don't really work very well for robots, as it turns out. Among other things, most of Booker's plots focus on one character as the main focus of the plot. But R.U.R. kills off...

The prologue: you learn that the factory at R.U.R. has created robots, which will end poverty and usher in gladness. You're introduced to the main characters Domin and Helena, who marry at the end...

Sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov, who did much to popularize robots, said that Čapek's play was "terribly bad." He thought the word "robot" was cool though. (Source)Čapek was a dedicated anti-fascist;...

There is no sex in R.U.R. Robots do not have sex, and humans don't either. Robots don't kiss robots, humans don't kiss humans, humans don't kiss robots, and no one kisses toasters. Chasteness aboun...

Adam (prologue.321): in the Bible, the first man created by GodBible (prologue.265): passages quoted (3.229)Christ (1.138)Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1.370)Homer (1.397)Immanuel Kant (1.397)Karl...